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1582-92) as a scarf, which Bel-imperia gives to her beloved Don Andrea just before he joins battle with Portugal over its neglected tribute to Spain.(46) As she ties the scarf around his arm, Bel-imperia's stately couplets establish the silken scarf as a courtly love token and at the same time endow the favor with apotropaic powers: Lend me thy loving and thy warlike arm, On which I knit this soft and silken charm Tied with an amorous knot: oh, may it prove Enchanted armor being charmed by love; That when it mounts up to thy warlike crest, It may put by the sword, and so be blest.

At least on this point, Ephrem's successors seem both to conflate the complex layers of Ephrem's imagery on the Fragrance of Life, and to narrow the sense to a sharply honed apotropaic force.

ibid, 70, CRESCO (PER)CREPAS GAUDEO (PER)PLORAS INVEDE MORERE ("I am winning, you complain (a great deal); I am pleased, you weep (a great deal); envious one, you will die"), making victory apotropaic by assimilating the unlucky opponent to the source of the Evil Eye.

They explore the establishment of the idea of motherhood as a social and cultural practice; the construction of the identity of women through their relationship with motherhood from a social standpoint, legal perspective, or in terms of power relations; the representation of key moments in the lives of women, such as pregnancy or childbirth; the visualization of relationships and emotions regarding sons and daughters through iconographic or epigraphic representations; the ways in which care practices were undertaken; learning processes; how the inclusion of children and funeral rituals had an apotropaic or a symbolic character; and how current discourses on motherhood and childhood are transmitted through diverse educational strategies.

www.parkwoodoutdoors.co.uk HALLOWEEN TOURS Haddon Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire October 25, 29, 30 and 31, from 6pm Book a spooky evening tour focussing on the fascinating "apotropaic marks" - otherwise known as witch's marks - scattered around the masonry and woodwork of this fabulous old building.

Their texts are apotropaic, exorcistic, and curative, and resemble the typical incantation bowls that have been published thus far.

This information is, in the modern myths so often shared by the artist, the activist, and the philanthropist, thought to be apotropaic. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick would call such thinking "paranoid," the skeleton key to a private room above the fray.

When completed, the group would, it seems, form an apotropaic system warding off an evil that Messerschmidt believed was stalking him.

What Rowling writes these days, under the pen name Robert Galbraith, are crime novels: the closest equivalent adults have to the apotropaic formula of childhood literature, parading the unimaginable in front of us and then solving it, stabilising it.

This charisma is manifested in rituals of this-worldly orientation, in which Rachekyi yogis serve as "shamanic weather workers" (66) who control storm clouds and thereby gain authority to assume broader regulatory roles in local communities and manage the practical needs of their constituents--in a manner akin to Melford Spiro's notion of "apotropaic Buddhism" (73).

For example, Kathleen Marks describes this novel as an apotropaic imagination, one in which to ward off or resist the danger and threat of slavery, Sethe had to kill her daughter (2).